called (and I'm not making this up) "I get tears in my ears from lyin' on my back while I cry over you"
...and I think it may have been by Jeff Foxworthy, but that does not decrease it's validity.
Sometimes, like once every 6 to 9 months, I cry myself to sleep (little known fact -- i.e. by my sisters and as of tonight Nick) I cry myself to sleep.
and tonight
It's because I miss you all so much.
OK that was very hard to d w o typos. the end.
10.31.2010
10.30.2010
Some Halloween Fright?
To my fellow quadlings who are so much more than friends,
At 3:30 in the morning I am compelled to tell you all how much I appreciate you. I just got home from a party where people a) discussed dating outside of one's race as if it were a topic that needed to be discussed b) made fun of Obama and c) said the n word. How upsetting. I can't believe there are groups of people who still say these things. People from our generation, too! I am disgusted. Luckily I was able to leave. Whats even more frightening is that this is the second situation like this I have been in this year. Over the summer I was camping with an old friend from high school and her boyfriend's friends were telling stories littered with the n word and complaining about immigrants. And these were two completely separate groups of people. How do I manage to find these people? Sometimes I am torn between staying in touch with my conservative friends (because I don't like to let politcal differences get in the way of friendship if I think that someone is genuinely a good person and because I believe in all kinds of diversity - and who knows, maybe I'll let a little liberalism rub off on them) or abandoning them all together. I seem to run into this ignorance that is so hard to tolerate too often with conservative groups. It really saddens me and makes me fearful for progress.
Anyway, its pretty late for a long rant so I apologize for all of the errors I probably made :)Hopefully you get my point through my rambling... I am so glad/comforted to know that each of you are in this world. Thanks for being your awesome selves!
Whew! Stewart Colbert Rally tomorrow - time to make fun of everything I just complained about!
Liz
At 3:30 in the morning I am compelled to tell you all how much I appreciate you. I just got home from a party where people a) discussed dating outside of one's race as if it were a topic that needed to be discussed b) made fun of Obama and c) said the n word. How upsetting. I can't believe there are groups of people who still say these things. People from our generation, too! I am disgusted. Luckily I was able to leave. Whats even more frightening is that this is the second situation like this I have been in this year. Over the summer I was camping with an old friend from high school and her boyfriend's friends were telling stories littered with the n word and complaining about immigrants. And these were two completely separate groups of people. How do I manage to find these people? Sometimes I am torn between staying in touch with my conservative friends (because I don't like to let politcal differences get in the way of friendship if I think that someone is genuinely a good person and because I believe in all kinds of diversity - and who knows, maybe I'll let a little liberalism rub off on them) or abandoning them all together. I seem to run into this ignorance that is so hard to tolerate too often with conservative groups. It really saddens me and makes me fearful for progress.
Anyway, its pretty late for a long rant so I apologize for all of the errors I probably made :)Hopefully you get my point through my rambling... I am so glad/comforted to know that each of you are in this world. Thanks for being your awesome selves!
Whew! Stewart Colbert Rally tomorrow - time to make fun of everything I just complained about!
Liz
10.14.2010
Video!
http://www.youtube.com/350org
Pay special attention to the 40-second mark. Recognize anyone???
Seriously, you guys, I really recommend joining this movement. Even just getting the email updates so you know what's going on politically. And please vote this mid-term election! Unless... no... i don't think any of us are Republicans... so yeah, VOTE!! :)
I can't find a link to the local news story they did on us... if I can find it I'll show you guys, too.
Long live planet Earth!
Pay special attention to the 40-second mark. Recognize anyone???
Seriously, you guys, I really recommend joining this movement. Even just getting the email updates so you know what's going on politically. And please vote this mid-term election! Unless... no... i don't think any of us are Republicans... so yeah, VOTE!! :)
I can't find a link to the local news story they did on us... if I can find it I'll show you guys, too.
Long live planet Earth!
10.13.2010
pumpkin love
ORANGE!!! Everything is orange and beautiful and Nicky's post made me want to go to Boulder so bad!!!! I looooovvvveeee Fall too. The leaves in Maryland haven't exactly changed yet, but they are on their merry way. I guess Liz is the only other blogger to witness the Maryland leaves with me this year, we are all so spread out across the Americas! I went down to Virginia with my coworker and Kelly on Sunday to go have a look at the leaves and hang out at my coworker's old farm. But they hadn't really changed yet. I'm hoping to go again next weekend and possibly camp :).
Also, I think I am dating this coworker, which is good, but also scary for me.... because I'm not really good at relationships and also because work relationships gone awry can suck, so I'm trying to be careful. But basically he calls every night and we've been having a lot of sleepovers. Which is a little odd, because in the morning we go to work together. so yea, I think we are dating, and he is kind of intense. But that is how I roll.....
love you guys!
Also, I think I am dating this coworker, which is good, but also scary for me.... because I'm not really good at relationships and also because work relationships gone awry can suck, so I'm trying to be careful. But basically he calls every night and we've been having a lot of sleepovers. Which is a little odd, because in the morning we go to work together. so yea, I think we are dating, and he is kind of intense. But that is how I roll.....
love you guys!
Fall
Fall hit Boulder yesterday. I love Fall. I love cold nights and foggy mornings. I love waking up while the sun starts to come up and pulling my nose under warm blankets. But here in Colorado, I have found a new, unexpected reason to love Fall: my drive to work.
I drive along a small highway on my short 10-minute drive, and through my windshield I get to see the mountain range behind Boulder. Yesterday the clouds had come over the mountain and concealed the highest peaks. They were so close it felt as if I could just lean out the car window and reach up and I would touch them. The smaller mountains had clouds that seemed to be hiding just behind the top, settling into the valleys. All the leaves have gone yellow, brown, orange and red but some trees are still stubbornly remaining green. This morning was completely different, clear, bright, and sunny. Today when I looked out at the mountains, the highest peaks were pure white. Snow from the top of the fourteeners through Nederland, a nearby (but higher altitude) town.
Amazing. Made me think of you all, of going back to St. Mary's. And it means Tokar will be back in the states soon. I love Fall.
I drive along a small highway on my short 10-minute drive, and through my windshield I get to see the mountain range behind Boulder. Yesterday the clouds had come over the mountain and concealed the highest peaks. They were so close it felt as if I could just lean out the car window and reach up and I would touch them. The smaller mountains had clouds that seemed to be hiding just behind the top, settling into the valleys. All the leaves have gone yellow, brown, orange and red but some trees are still stubbornly remaining green. This morning was completely different, clear, bright, and sunny. Today when I looked out at the mountains, the highest peaks were pure white. Snow from the top of the fourteeners through Nederland, a nearby (but higher altitude) town.
Amazing. Made me think of you all, of going back to St. Mary's. And it means Tokar will be back in the states soon. I love Fall.
10.02.2010
Creative Crunk
Ranging from fabulous to foul...
http://gizmodo.com/5653222/the-most-creative-jell+o-shots-ever-gallery/gallery/
10.01.2010
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